When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows two faces of Mars a hot and arid wasteland and as a cold water ice rich ...

Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing.

Can we use the planetary environment of Mars to help power a future colony on the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Device hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how ...

A team of researchers from the CSIC-INTA Astrobiology Centre in Madrid has confirmed that the type of mineralogical composition on the surface of Mars influences the measuring of its temperature. The ...

The Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometer (EMIRS) instrument on board the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) “Hope”, for the first time, is providing us with the temperature measurements of Mars at all local ...

Although the James Webb Space Telescope was built primarily for looking back at the earliest and most distant galaxies, it can also be used for a host of other scientific observations — including ...

The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, reached Mars’ orbit on Feb. 9, 2021. Now, some of the first images from the spacecraft’s instruments are ...

Ever since we learned that the surface of planet Mars is cold and dead, people have wondered if there is a way to make it friendlier to life. In a groundbreaking study published Aug. 7 in Science ...

What happened to the idea of shooting a number of penetrators into the surface? I recall they were thinking of dropping them all over the surface, providing a network of temperature probes. I don't ...

New research suggests that temperatures on ancient Mars may have fluctuated between hot and cold periods through a relatively short period during its lifetime of billions of years. But these hot and ...

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was fainter early on." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...